commodity in short supply

If there's a commodity in short supply here, it's relaxation.

"This holiday could not be more needed than right now, when trust is a commodity in short supply," said Msgr.

The plant is to produce laundry detergent, one of the commodities in shortest supply nationwide.

"There is something about human nature that makes a commodity in short supply more desired," said Stephen Kenner, medical director for the county's health department.

We did not exploit them through wealth, but we had a surplus of the commodities in short supply on Earth planet: food, fuel energy, raw materials.

And safety--real or illusory--was a commodity in short supply in her life just now.

Mr President, I can of course understand the problems of countries who have managed their water differently, and where it is now a commodity in short supply.

Those ancient symbols of renewal, prosperity and luck - commodities in short supply in Afghanistan for many years - neatly summed up Mr. Nasim's immigrant hopes.

De Maistre believed in hereditary monarchies because they would bring "order to society," a commodity in short supply in his eyes after the chaos of the French Revolution.

ONE business commodity in short supply, and growing shorter, is corporate loyalty, both the loyalty of employees to the company and the loyalty of the company to its workers.

Many women compensate for not giving money by donating time, the commodity in shortest supply for career women and mothers of young children, but the one resource they feel is theirs to give.

She wasn't surprised that there was no one on it, since there was nothing to recommend it but its relative isolation, a commodity in short supply at the PalaceICollegium complex.

This supplied the newly restarted Jaunākās Ziņas for free for over a year, a not insignificant commercial advantage at a moment in time when paper was a very precious and expensive commodity in short supply.

Composure had been a commodity in short supply on the club in the course of its losing streak; lately a one-goal deficit had been enough to send the players into a collective cringe from which recovery seemed impossible.

Tempo in Short Supply Tempo was a commodity in short supply tonight until the last 10 minutes of the third period, when the Islanders picked up their pace and gained the game-tying goal at 11:38.

"Admittedly you have a large and competent fleet to offer the Liberators, but little else apart from grain-which, my agents say, is not a commodity in short supply for the Liberators, who stripped inland Thrace and all Anatolia-and have a nice deal in place with King Asander of Cimmeria.